Website of Rachel Herz, author of Scent of Desire, with good links to outside resources

Sissel Tolaas

You could describe scent expert and odour artist Sissel Tolaas as something of an obsessive when it comes to smell; she has built up a library of over 6000 scents and works for International Flavors and Fragrances, a company that makes a produces a number of well-known perfume brands. Read more about her in SightUnseen magazine, link below.http://www.sightunseen.com/2009/11/sissel-tolaas-scent-expert/

Books:

Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way

[Paperback] by Molly Birnbaum, 2012. Portobello Books
It was Molly’s book about her experience of anosmia and the journey she undertook to learn about the condition and the sense of smell itself that was the inspiration for the creation of Fifth Sense, so we are big fans of Molly here. If you haven’t read her book, ‘Season to Taste‘, then go out and get yourself a copy.http://www.mollybirnbaum.com/

A World Without Smells

[Kindle Edition] by Lars Lundqvist, 2016
Lars Lundqvist was born without a sense of smell. In this book he talks about his experience of life in a world where smell does not exist.